dear virginia,

  ... i LOVE your story, what a marvelous creation, ... and so up-to-date, with all the nlp-anchoring and subliminal-programming references -- i'm able with those, so i can appreciate the awesomeness of the story you've created.

   ... and now i'm on the edge of my seat, wanting more; ... please, it's been over a year and a half now -- i'm curious from where your next inspiration will come, and how soon ...?

--- gratefully, appreciatively, and sweetly, honey  :)

p.s.- if i may contribute to your excellence, with these gifts:  "s'il vous plait" (cie ...., was homonymically derived, accurately too!)(i minored in language in college), and "mores" (morays are eels) -- both examples demonstrate, referencing nlp, an acquired auditory-based spelling-strategy (say, hear, feel, spell), as opposed to a visual-based spelling-strategy (see a picture of the word, say the letters, check correctness by a feeling-memory, spell)(read bandler/grinder's "frogs into princes" for the eye-positions most supportive of installing the visual-strategy) which is more useful to acquire, given the number of homonyms that english has -- for example, wear + where, morays + mores, sea + see, fish + ghoti ("gh", as in "enough"; "o", as in "some word where it's pronounced like a short 'i'"; and, "ti", as in "motion") ("ghoti" is a word that phonetically is pronounced, "fish").  "hooked on phonics" is a great way to program people to believe that "bad spellers" exist -- not so, they've simply not acquired, or been trained in, a visual-spelling strategy -- NObody can spell english correctly, auditorially, because english is an auditory-speller's nightmare.  

***  thank you for accepting the gifts:  first, the offer, my intent of showing appreciation for your creation; second, the info, "the polishings of perfection" -- nobody polishes coal, they only polish the diamonds -- YOU are a "diamond"-writer/creator, virginia, and i love the way you write, ... and i hope you write more, especially of this story!  ***

Entertaining story with some parts better than others. All in all enjoyed reading.